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Pension Fund Colocation Data Center Leverages EcoStruxure IT to Drive Economic Growth

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Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
  • America
Country
  • United States
Product
  • EcoStruxure IT Advisor
  • EcoStruxure IT
  • EcoStruxure Asset Advisor
Tech Stack
  • IoT
  • Cloud-based Monitoring Tools
  • Microsoft Azure Platform
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Productivity Improvements
  • Cost Savings
Technology Category
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
Applicable Industries
  • Finance & Insurance
  • Healthcare & Hospitals
  • Education
Applicable Functions
  • Discrete Manufacturing
  • Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases
  • Predictive Maintenance
  • Remote Asset Management
Services
  • Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
  • Data Science Services
About The Customer
The Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA) is the administrator of the state’s pension fund. RSA supports state of Alabama employees by seeking and securing investments and services that will grow retirement income, and by helping members to prepare for an enjoyable and successful retirement. Among their many real estate investments is a state-of-the-art colocation data center facility which, besides offering its tenants high availability performance (the facility has not experienced downtime since its inception six years ago), serves as a business hub that offers high tech job opportunities and economic development to local residents. The facility hosts a diverse group of customers that includes hospitals and universities from across Alabama, TV stations, courthouses and government services from across the state and even Emergency 911 services.
The Challenge
The Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA), the administrator of the state’s pension fund, operates a state-of-the-art colocation data center facility. The facility's ability to attract clients is dependent upon a solid reputation for maintaining system uptime. RSA staff wanted to make absolutely certain that the facility housed the most resilient power and cooling infrastructure available. They decided to turn to Schneider Electric, not only to provide the necessary hardware, but to also deploy IoT enabled architecture EcoStruxureTM IT to support the deployment of cloud-based monitoring tools. The 44,000 square foot colocation facility hosts a diverse group of customers that includes hospitals and universities from across Alabama, TV stations, courthouses and government services from across the state and even Emergency 911 services, uptime and visibility to data center assets have emerged as top priorities for RSA.
The Solution
Schneider Electric offered standardized UPS, cooling and power distribution systems along with an EcoStruxureTM IT architecture that enabled cloud-based advanced remote monitoring and alarm management. The EcoStruxure IT, which is hosted on the cloud-based Microsoft Azure Platform, connects disparate data center and IT systems to enable operators to remotely, rapidly and securely scale management ecosystems while harnessing insights from a proprietary data lake of over 100 billion data points. This architecture provides global real-time visibility and predictive analytics across the entire hybrid IT environment, optimizing operations across IT and facilities. For tech support, RSA enlisted the services of the Schneider Electric Service Bureau. The EcoStruxure Asset Advisor service provides them access to a team of on-call technical experts empowered with real-time data.
Operational Impact
  • The entire approach of managing a 44,000 square foot data center is now much easier.
  • The EcoStruxure IT architecture and the accompanying monitoring software provided visibility to trending and anticipate whether they were beginning to experience any problems or changes within the data center environment.
  • The Service Bureau representatives already know the serial number of the unit, they know RSA's address, they know RSA's phone number. With real-time data, they can focus on troubleshooting right away. Then they handle everything for RSA, from the dispatch, to the ordering and delivery of parts.
Quantitative Benefit
  • The facility has not experienced downtime since its inception six years ago.
  • The staff response time to drop down to practically zero minutes.

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